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  • no, I’m not named after the character in The Witcher, I’ve never played
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I definitely feel like I’m more of like a dumpling than a woman at this point in my life.

- Hannah Horvath

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Cake day: March 2nd, 2024

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  • well now I’m upset I haven’t smelled a body in decomposition before ☹️ (if there is a God, I hope he prints this off and confronts me with this when I die)

    but I assume a morgue preserves the corpse well enough that I don’t think it will be too much of an issue

    now that you say it, I have smelled decomposing animal bodies before many times - but maybe not a human corpse 🤔

    In the early stages there are a lot of fecal smells.

    I would be very interested in being a pathologist or dealing with corpses, I think I’m better suited to that work than the average person - however, a lot of that work involves court testimony and working with the government, and I’m just not interested in having a job where public testimony is a major part of it or where I’m involved in the “justice system” (mostly because of the corruption and the feeling that my job would put me in morally compromised positions, and I just couldn’t handle that).


  • in what sense am I “talking up” the Iron Dome? the closest thing to this is that I don’t agree with the tankie dogma that the Iron Dome only protects military assets … the Iron Dome clearly protects Israeli citizens as well, and that fact doesn’t necessarily change much - in fact, I also criticized the Iron Dome’s role in protecting citizens as a kind of “enabler”, the safety it provides undermines political will to end and avoid conflicts (not that I want civilians to be treated as valid targets, but the Iron Dome does have problematic consequences this way).

    If you don’t want to be thoughtful or read my comments in good faith, and you’re primed to conclude I’m defending Israel regardless, I don’t really care - you don’t have to read my comments, I’m not here to convince anyone of anything and I don’t need to convince you of my anti-Zionism; I’m happy to block you and move on with my life.


  • I agree the current state of Israel is illegal and shouldn’t exist, but political positions like this are separate from my view that most civilians are just normal folks and shouldn’t bear the primary burden - generally wars should be fought targeting military targets, not targeting civilians. I understand that’s a bit complicated when the conflict is asymmetric and one side is not a military as much as a guerilla resistance, their tactics do rely more on using terror to pressure political solutions in their favor.

    But yeah, I agree with not funding Israel ✅ The US doesn’t have a special obligation to fund Israel, even if they have been a useful “attack dog” in the Middle East for us, I don’t think US intervention in pretty much most cases is helpful - the US is a big part of why Israel gets away with their crimes and is an unchecked genocidal, racist state.



  • yes, I agree with this point - maybe not to the point of saying we should dismantle the Iron Dome from protecting civilians, but you are right that the Iron Dome acts as a kind of enabler - providing psychological safety to Israelis that undermines political will to end and avoid conflict.

    But I’m not sure the civilians are necessarily the best targets in the first place - there have been massive protests against the current government, and I’m not sure we should really consider Israel a particularly democratic state.

    Also, Israel has been genocidal for many decades now, including through decades under which many Israelis had to take cover under bomb shelters, so the Iron Dome is probably not the most relevant factor in whether Israel continues on its path.


  • Look, I’m not here to shame sex work, but lets be real. The entire business model for these women is based on their bodies being as sexualized as possible. They aren’t trying to dismantle the system of objectification; they’re trying to become CEO of it. For them, #FreeTheNipple isn’t a protest, it’s an ad. It’s a free sample to lure customers back to their subscription page. They’re using the language of social justice to funnel political sympathy into their bank accounts. It’s brilliant, in a completely cynical way. They didn’t free the nipple, they just put a new price tag on it and called it liberation.

    this feels like it was written by LLM